Thursday, June 24, 2010

Best Pre-prepared Meals

These are foods you can buy, put on the shelf or freezer, and eat them a few months later with zero preparation and they still taste really good.

Frozen Entrees:

Bertolli: Shrimp Asparagus and Penne
The asparagus is not soggy or stringy.

Tandoor Chef: Vegetable Pad Thai
There are some really awful ones out there, but this one is tasty. Lots of veggies.


Kashi: Lemongrass Coconut Chicken (have you seen the Onion parody about warning labels on frozen entrees?) The spices and barley make this one interesting.


Sweet and Cold:

Greek Gods: Greek yogurt with honey
Greek yogurt has more fat and is thicker than regular yogurt.

Dole: Tropical Gold Pineapple
Tastes more like fresh pineapple than canned.

Dole: bottled halved apricots and mandarin oranges
In the canned fruit section

Bolthouse Farms: smoothies
I'm not sure how long these will last.  I like them too much to try the experiment.

cinnamon applesauce


Snacks:

 Triscuits, Deli Style Rye
It's those caraway seeds.

Kirkland pine nuts
These are from Asia so they're cheaper than European pine nuts.

Anyone else have some recommendations that fit these restrictions?

1 comment:

Rebecca Holt Stay said...

Some of the Marie Callendar TV dinners are pretty good. We've liked the chicken/broccoli alfredo and the sliced turkey with stuffing. Peter really likes the 'country fried' meat entrees.